Larry, I have sourced and bought hundreds of disks drives for about twenty years. Early on, the going was rough; many failures. Today, drives are much more reliable. My point about the (fictitious) 72 Chevy was that I too have seen manufactures go through bad stretches, but don't pay much attention today. If I wanted to protect your photo library, I would do something very much along Tom's recommendations. I would use enterprise class drives, such as SAS for primary storage and enough SATA for rotating backups, with enough capacity to grow. You can attach SAS and SATA drives to a SAS controller.
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- >Your diatribe against manufacturers translated to cars: You thought that was a diatribe? Really? Seems I should post one sometime so you can see the difference. >I used to have a >72 Chevy, but it broke down so I won't go near GM. So, you won't go near GM because of experiences with a car over 30 years ago? You should check out what GM has to offer. You'll find they in general - and Chevy in particular - has many cars much nicer than the Vega. If you owned a Mercedes or BMW, would you also not buy another one if it broke down too? My experiences with Seagate are based upon about 20 consecutive failures (by Sun workstation serial number) about 10 years ago. After the first 5 or so, Sun contacted us and started to proactively replace workstation hard drives - all by Seagate. I'm still willing to buy Seagate and have, although they're not my favorite. >That is silly Yes, I agree. Your reasoning is quite silly. >but, more important, you didn't tell us what is most important for you >about the drive. I started a thread back on 9/2 and eventually posted the same question (literally) but it got lost amidst the brouhaha over cell phones or some other issue. But since you asked and probably didn't see my original post, I've got a professional photography business and have about 200 gb of pictures (almost all are jpegs) that I'd like to keep backed up. I started out using 2 separate hard drives but they filled up. I added an external USB hard drive (that I keep off-site) and a little over a year ago, I bought a My World Book II (setup for RAID-1) but one of the drives in it failed recently (but just out of warranty). (Oh... someone mentioned RMA but I'm less concerned with returning a drive when it becomes a paperweight). Some people had suggested 3-drives in rotation (Tom P. IIRC) and I was looking for a recommendation on what drives people seem to like. >Still, here is a fair source of disk >drive information, especially performance: >http://www.storagereview.com/ Yeah... I know about that site. I thought I'd ask here since I know (more or less) most of the people here and figure this is a better place to ask than a forum where I don't have any idea who is who. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
